University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

BAMPFA is UC Berkeley’s premier visual arts venue, presenting more than 450 film screenings, scores of public programs, and up to twenty exhibitions annually. With its vibrant and eclectic programming, BAMPFA inspires the imagination and ignites critical dialogue through art, film, and other forms of creative expression. BAMPFA’s collection includes more than 17,500 films and videos, including the largest collection of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, impressive holdings of Soviet cinema, West Coast avant-garde film, seminal video art, as well as hundreds of thousands of articles, reviews, posters, and other ephemera related to the history of film.
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Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-356 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright... Topic: californiarevealed Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Documentation of the artist Phil Harmonic, performing for the exhibition entitled Performance/art/artists/performers at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum on July 17, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. This live performance is another in a continuing series of worldwide cultural events, prepared with the intention of helping to demystify the relationship between people and art and technology. It is a component part of the larger event entitled... Topic: californialightandsound

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Description : Filmmaker Stanley Donen and photographer Richard Avedon discuss the making of the film "Funny Face," (directed by Donen, with Avedon as "visual consultant,") as well as their collaboration together. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-363 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--United States,... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Hollywood costume designer Walter Plunkett discusses working on the film "Singin' in the Rain," and Hollywood history in general, especially his work as a costume designer for RKO in the 1930's and MGM in the 1950s. He also discusses his time as a UC-Berkeley undergraduate. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-351 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,... Topics: californialightandsound, Costume design--United States--History--20th century, Motion... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Additional Title : The Sixties: What it was and what it wasn't Description : The artistic, cultural, and political moment of the Bay Area (and beyond) in the Sixties is discussed by key figures of the era, including R.G. Davis (founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe), filmmaker Bruce Conner, filmmaker/distributor Peter Gessner (founder of Newsreel), and curator Tom Luddy. Topics include the link between politics, activism, and filmmaking;, the role of the artist in tackling politics; the Bay... Topics: californialightandsound, Luddy, Tom, Davis, R.G., Gessner, Peter, Gitlin, Todd, Gorin, Jean-Pierre,... Source: 8 Tapes of 8: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Note : Part 4 has a moment of silence between 5:20 and 6:20 (recorded in the original tape). Description : Wide-ranging discussion with filmmaker/activist Robert Kramer, made before he would leave the country permanently for exile in France. "Robert Kramer made an important distinction about his films: they were not about the Movement, they were of the Movement. Of their time, just as Kramer himself can be said to have been of his: radicalized by studying philosophy and Western history in... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion pictures--political aspects--United States, Politics in motion... Source: 4 Tapes of 4: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Note : Distortion and buzz is on the original tape. There is more than one minute of silence at the end of part 2. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-261 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work... Topic: californialightandsound Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-541 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright... Topic: californiarevealed Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Note : There are four minutes of silence at the end of the recording. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-266 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and... Topic: californiarevealed Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Documentation of a performance piece by John Gillen included in the exhibition Performance/Art/Artists/Performers held at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, August 19, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number : 0550-121-8922 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution... Topic: californiarevealed

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Description : The Bay Area experimental/found-footage filmmaker/photographer Bruce Conner is feted on the occasion of his birthday, which also overlaps with the anniversaries of other historic events related to his film, "Television Assassination:" the assassinations of Robert and John F. Kennedy. He discusses those events, his filmmaking aesthetic, and his use of music in film, among other topics. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Call Number :... Topics: californialightandsound, Conner, Bruce Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Performance piece performed by Darryl Sapien and Michael Hinton at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California on August 26, 1975, as part of the exhibition entitled Performance/art/artists/performers, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Darryl Sapien and Michael Hinton, in construction worker outfits, heavy boots, helmets and goggles, were strapped to a 34 foot telephone pole and worked their way down in an hour and a half, slowly splitting the pole as they descended by... Topic: californiarevealed

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Description : Bay Area video artist/filmmaker/poet/educator/activist Marlon Riggs is honored in this tribute night, only six months before he passed away. Speeches, words of praise, and performances are included. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-2147 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase... Topics: californialightandsound, African American motion picture producers and directors--Interviews,... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Underground/experimental filmmaker and SFAI professor George Kuchar discusses several of his recent works such as THE DRESS AND THE WOMAN, WILD NIGHT IN EL RENO, and ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN, as well as his personal life, teaching at SFAI, and filmmaking in the Bay Area. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Number : 4000-01-596 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--San Francisco Bay... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Film composer David Raksin, "the grandfather of film music," discusses film music composition, his acclaimed themes for "Laura" and "The Bad and the Beautiful," and his career in film music. Introduced and hosted by UCB film professor Albert Johnson. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-897 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion pictures--California--Los Angeles--History, Motion picture... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : UCLA film preservationist Robert Gitt introduces Hollywood film director Budd Boetticher, who discusses working in Hollywood, working in the western genre, and the films "Seven Men from Now" and "The Bullfighter and the Lady." Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-2846 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction... Topics: californialightandsound, Boetticher, Budd, 1916-2001, Motion picture producers and... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-615 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright... Topic: californiarevealed Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Director Samuel Fuller reminisces on filmmaking in Hollywood, film criticism, and particular film productions like PARK ROW and THE BIG RED ONE, as well as his own filmmaking style. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-858 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--Los Angeles, Motion... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Various amateur film club members of the Bay Area discuss the rise and development of amateur film clubs and amateur filmmaking in Northern California from the 1950s through the '90s. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-2730 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements,... Topics: californialightandsound, Amateur films -- United States -- History, California--Social life and... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Documentary filmmaker Allan Francovich, who was based in Berkeley, CA for many years, discusses his newest film ON COMPANY BUSINESS, on CIA involvement in the destablization of various foreign governments, as well as political filmmaking in general. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Number : 4000-01-379 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its... Topics: californialightandsound, Documentary films--Political aspects--United States, Political films,... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Note : There is more than one minute of silence at the end of the recording. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-262 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education... Topic: californiarevealed Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : The Kuchar brothers discuss fillmmaking in the Bronx, screening their films in New York in the early days, and the preservation of their works. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-847 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity... Topics: californialightandsound, Kuchar, George, 1942-2011, Kuchar, Mike, 1942-, Motion picture producers... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Filmmaker Warren Sonbert provides a lecture on Alfred Hitchcock's film "Marnie," and connects the work to his own films and filmmaking aesthetic. "Hitchcock's Marnie was released in 1964, my own fledgling filmic efforts following (comparatively) on its heels: the developed aesthetic fruits ripe for a fall. How to talk about another's ploys and motives while really revealing one's own: this is a challenge both to vary the notoriously predictable form of... Topics: californialightandsound, Sonbert, Warren, Hitchcock, Alfred Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : James Broughton, the "grandfather" of independent San Francisco filmmaking, discusses the early years of independent filmmaking in the Bay Area, as well as cinema, art, and San Francisco in the 1960s. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Number : 4000-01-616 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--San Francisco Bay... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Low-budget experimental/underground filmmaker and SFSU professor George Kuchar discusses his newest films ACQUEERIUS and NOCTURNAL IMMACULATION, as well as underground and experimental filmmaking in the Bay Area in the late 1970s. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Number : 4000-01-438 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--San Francisco Bay... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Note : There is one minute of silence at the end of the recording. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-297 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and... Topic: californialightandsound Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Los Angeles filmmaker Charles Burnett discusses African American representation in films, the early days of the UCLA Film School "wave" in the mid-1970s, and the filmmaking and cultural scene of the era, as well as his career in Hollywood and in independent cinema. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-3083; 4000-01-3084 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title... Topics: californialightandsound, Burnett, Charles, African American motion picture producers and... Source: 2 Tapesof 2: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Bay Area-by-way-of-the-Bronx filmmaker/video artist George Kuchar introduces his newest works "East by Southwest" and "Album Five: The Thursday People," and discusses in detail his switch from 8mm and 16mm film to video, as well as his process in working in video. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-891 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,... Topics: californialightandsound, Kuchar, George, 1942-2011, Motion picture producers and... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Filmmakers Mark Kitchell and Veronica Selver introduce a screening of their then-work-in-progress documentary, "Berkeley in the Sixties," (which would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award and win the Sundance Film Festival's Audience Award), and take questions and comments from the audience on the film, and on Berkeley in the Sixties. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-882 Rights : Copyright status... Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--San Francisco Bay... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

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Description : Pioneering Asian American filmmaker and educator Loni Ding discusses her career, films, and creative processes, as well as the intertwining of cinema, politics, and Asian American community organizing in the Bay Area, as well as in California and the United States. Interviewed by writer/producer Barbara Amrash. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-2844 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the... Topics: californialightandsound, Asian American mass media, Asian American motion picture producers and... Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette

BAMPFA is UC Berkeley’s premier visual arts venue, presenting more than 450 film screenings, scores of public programs, and up to twenty exhibitions annually. With its vibrant and eclectic programming, BAMPFA inspires the imagination and ignites critical dialogue through art, film, and other forms of creative expression. BAMPFA’s collection includes more than 17,500 films and videos, including the largest collection of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, impressive holdings of Soviet cinema, West Coast avant-garde film, seminal video art, as well as hundreds of thousands of articles, reviews, posters, and other ephemera related to the history of film.
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Due to copyright restrictions, the BAMPFA collection may not be reproduced. The BAMPFA collection is available for private research use within the parameters of the Fair Use clause of the U.S. Copyright Act; contact library staff for more information.